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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: Christine Traut who wrote (5043)3/26/1999 8:21:00 AM
From: flatsville  Read Replies (1) of 9818
 
Welcome back! I picked this up this morning:

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The NJ Story will remain somewhat ambiguous until the details are published in
a respectable technical periodical. (At least one I respect.)

Supposing the most plausible explanation I have heaard is true (y2k remediation
messed up some input checking code) it raises an issue I have seen in one of my
IEEE pubs (sorry I forget which one, sorry) that used the acronym Y2kA, for
Y2k aftermath.

The people who fix their codes hastily, or trust automatic software fixers, or
y2k consultants in business for the last 6 months or trust a slew of other
sloppy fixes ... those folks may be bitten harder by the new bugs the
sloppiness introduced than by the y2k bug itself.

Compliance testing and regression testing is not easy for any operational
distributed systems (is there any other kind?)

The hard part of y2ka is that no one will really know where to look for the
problem. Y2k fixes are focused by the nature of the problem, but sloppy
maintenance can ooze a surprisingly long way from the actual deltas.

Assuming there is good configuration control and someone actually knows what
the deltas were, 6 months later.

---GaryFostel---

(Apparently Gary Fostel ignores his spell checker as well...<ggg>)
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